National Patriotic Front of Liberia

The National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) was a rebel group in Liberia that existed from 1989 to 1996. Led by Charles Taylor, it fought against Samuel Doe's government and other warlords in the First Liberian Civil War, with the persecuted Gio and Mano ethnicities being the majority of the rebel forces. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the international coordinator of the NPFL before she was President. The NPFL had around 25,000 troops during the civil war, and it was responsible for massacres, torture, kidnapping, and political assassinations. In 1997, the NPFL became the National Patriotic Party.